Milton Rebello and his wife Louise Lu stand in their new restaurant Skye Cafe and Bistro that the pair are going to open in the Saskatchewan Science Centre in Regina on Tuesday. TROY FLEECE / Regina Leader-PostTROY FLEECE / Regina Leader-Post

It has been years in the making, but a Regina couple will be opening their own restaurant on Friday at the Saskatchewan Science Centre.

“We always dreamt of having our own place. We have been travelling, we have been scouting places (and this was the right fit),” said Milton Rebello, who will run the restaurant with his wife Louise Lu.

Skye Cafe and Bistro won’t be a run-of-the-mill place, Rebello said. As much as possible Skye will use local ingredients from farmers who are growing plants especially for the restaurant. Skye also has a herb garden located on its patio and will have sprouts growing inside the restaurant during the winter.

“We thought we’d take it to the next level from farm to fork. We will take it to farm to fork to plate,” Rebello said.

In addition to the local ingredients, Lu handmade all of the plates and cups that will be used.

The menu will be small, but will evolve as time goes on with a weekend brunch menu. All pastries and breads will be cooked in-house by Skye’s baker Mark Dyck, who used to own Orange Boot Bakery.

Lu will be the head chef at Skye, with her husband — who is staying on as head chef at the Wascana Country Club — helping out whenever he can.

Since the restaurant is located at the Science Centre it will be kid friendly. Milton and Lu have two young children themselves.

“We wanted to make it a very family-friendly place … there’s two sections of (Skye), (a room) for people who have families who want to escape from the kids and (then a room) for families with kids,” Rebello said.

The mixture of fine food and family-friendly is important to the Science Centre.

“(Skye) will be a great place for kids to get a snack while they’re here visiting or a light lunch,” said Sandra Baumgartner, CEO of the Science Centre.

For the past decade the Science Centre hasn’t had a restaurant. It used to have a fine-dining restaurant, but visitors didn’t feel they could bring their kids there. Since it closed, the Science Centre has served small food items out of its gift shop and concession, with a caterer working out of the kitchen during events.

“Every restaurant has had its niche and filled a purpose, sometimes for the Science Centre, sometimes for the community. It’s just restaurants change over often,” Baumgartner said in regards to its changing restaurants.

Rebello said they hope to be able to partner with the Science Centre. Rebello wants to be able to offer cooking classes and other things that would complement the centre.

Skye Cafe and Bistro opens Friday. It will be open only during the mornings in its first days of operation.

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